'Dis'honest Abe

A man wearing an Abraham Lincoln disguise, complete with a long fake beard, must have decided that robbing Kansas City Bank was so easy last year that he'd try it again. He hadn't figured on the bank president's son and the other employees being so aggressive.

As soon as he set foot in the bank, the bankers hit the alarm, alerting police who are just a block away, that they were being robbed. By the time Dishonest Abe finished gathering all the cash he could get into his folder and turned to go out the door, they were waiting for him. They literally pounced on him, knocking him to the floor and sitting on him.

He was still there on the floor when police arrived.

Copyright © 2005 Bankers' Hotline. Originally appeared in Bankers' Hotline, Vol. 15, No. 8, 8/05